We Are All Immigrants Project

The McGraw Family

Ireland

They called him Mark because he couldn’t write his own name. In the 1880s, he fled famine and food riots in County Mayo for a country that despised him because of his faith and his culture, but was willing all the same to work him to death in the coalmines of Pennsylvania. He survived. So did his descendants. Deliver us McGraws from the temptation to forget how we got here.